As of this month (August), here's how 2013 is lookin for me so far...
Wicked’s Top 10 Hiphop Albums 2013
The Doppelgangaz - “Hark!” (CD/LP)
Dirt Platoon - “War Face” (CD)
Durag Dynasty - “360 Waves” (CD/LP)
Epidemic - “Somethin’ For Tha Listeners” (CD/LP)
Joey BADA$$ - “Summer Knights” (mp3)
Kid Tsunami - “The Chase” (CD/LP)
Phora - “One Life To Live” (CD)
7 G.E.M.S. - “Golden Era Music Sciences” (CD/LP)
uMaNg - “The Revisited” (CD)
Wildeluxe - “Shadowland Dwellers” (mp3)
Wicked’s Top 25 Honorable Mentions 2013
Big Malk & Sime Gezus - “Plutonium” (CD)
Blame One & J57 - “Walk In The Sun” (LP)
CM Jones - “Perfect Hand Off” (CD)
Def Dee - “33 And A Third” (CD)
First Light - “Fallacy Fantasy” (CD)
Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge - “12 Reasons To Die” (CD/LP)
Ghostface Killah & Apollo Brown - “12 Reasons To Die (The Brown Tape)” (CD/LP)
Hannibal Stax & Marco Polo - “Seize The Day” (CD)
Hus Kingpin - “The Cognac Tape” (CD/LP)
John Robinson & Kyo Itachi - “The Path Of Mastery” (CD)
Klaus Layer - “The Adventures Of Captain Crook” (CD/LP)
KON Sci of MindsOne - “And Beyond” (CD)
Lewis Parker - “The Puzzle Episode Two: The Glass Ceiling” (CD/LP)
Marco Polo - “Newport Authority 2” (CD/LP)
MC Melodee & Cookin’ Soul - “My Tape Deck” (CD/LP)
Romski - “On The Outside Looking In” (CD)
ScienZe - “Ella” (CD)
Shaz Illyork - “Deadstock Arrival” (CD)
Soundsci - “Soundsational” (CD/LP)
Statik Selektah - “Extended Play” (CD/LP)
Supastition - “The Blackboard EP (Deluxe Edition)” (CD)
Tony Touch - “PieceMaker 3... Return of the 50 MC’s” (CD/LP)
Ugly Heroes - “Ugly Heroes” (CD/LP)
Vintage Tux - “Crock Pot Muzik” (CD)
Zagnif Nori - “The Meridian Gem” (CD)
Wicked’s Top EP Releases 2013
Binary Star - “Binary Star EP” (CD)
Da Buze Bruvaz - “Cheesesteakz N Beat Breakz EP” (Vinyl)
Dag Savage - “Dag Savage EP” (Vinyl)
Damu The Fudgemunk - “Spur Momento EP” (CD/Vinyl)
DJ Crucial & Count Bass D - “In This Business EP” (Vinyl)
Fla Fla of Sparrow The Movement - “Timeless EP” (Vinyl)
Grim Reaperz - “Blood-Leg Vol. 2 EP” (Vinyl)
Heavy Links - “Heavyweight EP” (Vinyl)
Him-Lo - “Late Night Dinna’z at da Brothel EP” (Vinyl)
K-Def - “The Exhibit EP” (Vinyl)
K-Def - “The Meeting EP” (Vinyl)
Koss & El Da Sensei - “We Want More EP” (Vinyl)
Meyhem Lauren & IceRocks - “Raw Cashmere EP” (Vinyl)
MC Eiht - “Keep It Hood EP” (CD)
Nutso & DJ Low Cut - “In The Cut EP” (CD/Vinyl)
Omniscence - “Shard Objects EP” (Vinyl)
Rebels To The Grain - “Fine Wine EP” (CD)
Soundsci - “The Ultimate EP” (Vinyl)
Sour Stacks & Hustling Jacks - “The Green EP” (Vinyl)
Walt Sicknin’ - “Where’s Walt Yo? EP” (CD/Vinyl)
Wyld Bunch & DJ Brans - “Unbreakable EP” (CD/Vinyl)
Other Hiphop Albums That Deserve Mention 2013
Czarface - “Czarface” (CD/LP)
Daz & WC - “Westcoast Gangsta Shit” (CD)
Demigodz - “KILLmatic” (CD/LP)
DJ Skizz - “B.Q.E. (The Brooklyn-Queens Experience)” (CD/LP)
Dragonspit Jones - “The Ugly Truth” (CD)
Gavlyn - “Habit That You Blame” (CD)
Git - “Basement Ghost” (CD)
J-Love - “Pardon My Intrusion” (CD)
R.A. The Rugged Man - “Legends Never Die” (CD/LP)
Spectac & Shakim - “For The People” (CD)
Spectac & Amiri - “Soul Beautiful” (CD/LP)
Spit Gemz - “Fvck The Radio” (CD)
Trek Life - “Hometown Foreigner” (CD)
Trinity - “20 In” (CD/LP)
Wicked’s Most Disappointing Hiphop Albums 2013
Action Bronson & Harry Fraud - “Saab Stories EP” (mp3)
*Wacks beats!
Earl Sweatshirt - “Doris” (CD)
*Not feelin the sound.
Gensu Dean & Planet Asia - “Abrasions” (CD/LP)
*Not feelin a lot of the beats.
Moe Pope & Rain - “Let The Right Ones In” (CD/LP)
*Not feelin the sound.
N.O.R.E. - “Student Of The Game” (CD)
*Aside from 4 dope songs, overall its straight garbage!
Oh No - “Disrupted Ads” (CD/LP)
*Wack beats!
Quelle Chris - “N!ggas Is Men: Too Dirt For TV 2” (CD/LP)
*Not feelin the sound.
Slum Village - “Evolution” (CD/LP)
*Not feelin the sound.
Talib Kewli - “Prisoner Of Conscious” (CD/LP)
*Aside from a few good songs, overall it has wack beats!
Uptown X.O. - “Colour de Grey” (CD/LP)
*Not feelin the sound.
And I have a dope playlist on my YouTube account of all the latest (real) Hiphop videos from this year. Right now I’m up to 125 videos…
- http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL ... VNWjKfqapA